Featured Plant: Name: Ulmas glabra 'Camperdownii' (Camperdown elm)
- Family: Ulmaceae
- Plant type: deciduous tree
- Exposure: full sun or filtered shade
- Branching pattern: alternate
- Habit: weeping, grafted on a tree standard. It typically grows to 15-25 ft, but can grow taller and usually much wider.
- Foliage: coarse texture, prominent veins, pubescent (fine hairs) beneath, double serrated, dark green in summer, yellow fall color, asymmetrical leaf base at point of attachment to petiole
- Flowers: somewhat insignificant on this plant
- Fruit: single seed semaras, flat and green, typically there is little or no fruit set
- Similar species: Ulmus glabra 'Pendula'
- Other: Discovered in Dundee, Scotland in the 1800s and named for the Camperdown House at which it was found. It was originally a rambling shrub with no main stem.
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